Shopland

Shopland is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sutton in the Rochford District of Essex, England. It lies 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Rochford, its post town, and a similar distance north-east of the centre of Southend-on-Sea. Shopland was formerly a parish; the ecclesiastical parish formed a united benefice with Sutton from 1893, and the civil parish was abolished in 1933 when most of its area absorbed into Sutton, apart from a smaller section at the southern end of the parish which went instead to Southend. Shopland's parish church suffered damage during the Second World War and was subsequently demolished in 1957.